Triage
Methyl Ethel will release their third album Triage on Friday 15th February 2019. The album was written, produced and performed by lead singer Jake Webb, recorded in Jake's home studio in West Perth and mixed at Mute Studio in London with Marta Salogni. With his thirtieth birthday, and the ceremonial cap on three records and three EP's, Webb felt a sense of closure in the making of Triage. Methyl Ethel has always been a surrealist outfit - a dark and obscured expression of life set to the backdrop of dream pop hooks. But Triage is a more reflective album - one that explores the notion of coming of age, only to reference it for the snapshots and passing memories that it has become. Methyl Ethel is the musical project of Jake Webb. As a live band it expands to a five piece and includes Thom Stewart, Chris Wright, Lyndon Blue and Jacob Diamond. Methyl Ethel has enjoyed phenomenal successes over the last years. ‘Ubu’ became an ARIA Accredited Gold single earlier this year off the back of landing at #4 in triple j’s 2017 Hottest 100. The band have clocked up over 25 million Spotify streams alone and all of their tour dates in Australia and the UK since 2016 have sold out.
Methl Ethel's third album, 'Triage' is an often-dazzling, albeit inconsistent, affair from Perth's new pop masters
Triage is another of Methyl Ethel's exercises in the transient and indefinite. The Australian quartet's third album is introspective, but ca...
When 4AD launched in 1980 it quickly became the most trusted label for fans of independent and eclectic music. Not quite so much anymore.
Methyl Ethel - the project of Perth songwriter Jake Webb - have tidied everything up to the point it's squeaky clean on their third album 'Triage'.
'Triage' by Methyl Ethel, album review by Adam Williams. The full-length is now available via 4AD and various streaming services
Jake Webb’s band lean toward Tame Impala’s baked funk, with solid, catchy melodies – but it doesn’t grab the soul